quarto

(kwôrt′ō)

noun pl. quartos

the page size of a book made up of sheets each of which is folded twice to form four leaves, or eight pages, about nine by twelve inches in size
a book made of pages folded in this way

Origin: < L (in) quarto < in, in + quarto, abl. of quartus, fourth: see quart

adjective

having four (quarto) leaves to the sheet

See quarto in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. quar·tos

Origin:

Origin: Short for Middle English (in) quarto, (in) the fourth part (of a sheet)

Origin: , from Medieval Latin (in) quārtō

Origin: , from Latin

Origin: , ablative of quārtus, fourth; see k^wetwer- in Indo-European roots

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